There have been 321 road accidents in Russia over the past 24 hours.

Over the past day, 321 accidents have occurred on Russian roads, killing 29 and injuring 368 people. This was reported to Izvestia on October 16 by the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

As a result of 107 accidents involving pedestrians, eight people were killed, and 103 more were injured in various degrees of severity. Among the injured were 29 children, 17 of whom were injured at pedestrian crossings, and 12 more were outside their area of operation. Of the total number of pedestrian incidents, 53 occurred at pedestrian crossings and 54 outside their area of operation.

21 accidents involving buses were recorded, one person was killed, and 28 more road users, including two minors, required medical assistance. 10 bus accidents were caused by traffic violations committed by their drivers.

In addition, over the past day, 55 accidents involving minors were registered on the roads of Russia, in which three children were killed, 58 more young road users were injured, including 17 child passengers and one motor vehicle driver.

So, in Saratov, in the afternoon, a 14-year-old teenager who does not have the right to drive vehicles, while driving a car belonging to the mother of one of his passengers, drove off the road and crashed into a tree. As a result of the accident, the 13-year-old son of the car owner, who was in the front passenger seat, died. The minor driver himself and four other teenagers aged 15 to 16, who were transported in the back seat without using seat belts, were injured and hospitalized.

In the afternoon, on the 7th km of the Chismen - Teryaevo highway in the Moscow region, the driver of a crossover was transporting profiled metal sheets on the roof of the car, without ensuring their reliable fastening. During braking, the load fell on a woman and her four-year-old son, who were crossing the roadway at an unregulated pedestrian crossing. As a result of the incident, the child died, and his mother was injured and hospitalized.

Another accident occurred in the Moscow region late in the evening on the 39th km of Mozhaiskoe highway. The driver of a foreign car, when turning left at a controlled intersection at a traffic light, did not give an advantage to an oncoming car, resulting in a collision. A minor passenger of a foreign car who was in the front seat without a child restraint and not wearing a seat belt died in a car accident. The driver of the car was injured and was hospitalized.

The State Traffic Inspectorate drew the attention of parents to the need to exclude the possibility of self-driving cars by minors. Vehicle keys should be kept out of the reach of children. It is important to monitor their location and prevent situations in which teenagers can freely use the family car. The lack of a driver's license, the necessary knowledge and practical skills of driving a vehicle poses a serious threat to the life and health of both minors themselves and others, the department stressed.

"Special attention should be paid to compliance with the rules of cargo transportation. Before starting the trip, the driver must make sure that they are securely fastened and correctly placed. The transported items must not move or pose a danger to other road users when braking and performing maneuvers. An insufficiently secured load can cause a serious accident even when the car is moving at low speed," said Police Colonel Sergey Hrantskevich, head of the Department for Road Safety Promotion and Prevention of child traffic injuries at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

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Earlier in the day, it was reported that in the first nine months of 2026 in Moscow, the number of accidents involving taxi cars decreased by 2.4%, and the number of injured in them — by 2.7%.